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https://www.odt.co.nz/entertainment/arts/making-art-city

The Otago Art Society and the Ceramics Association of New Zealand southern region are bringing their members’ works together under one roof in a joint exhibition. Rebecca Fox talks to painter Anton Lambaart and potter and ceramic artist Elise Johnston about their work.

Dunedin potter and ceramic artist Elise Johnston also enjoys the collegiality of belonging to an organisation of fellow artists.

She joined the local potters group and found the monthly meetings are a great place to learn new skills and talk to experienced potters.

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NOW CLOSED

1877 Gallery
18 March 2017 – 2 July 2017

https://otagomuseum.nz/current-2/

Current exhibition showcased the work of nine designers and artists who were invited to creatively respond to specific garments from the Museum’s costume and textile collection.

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http://www.insidersdunedin.co.nz/creative-insider/2016/10/3/little-cups-of-calm-createdunedin

Mother and daughter team Karen Taylor O’Neill and Elise Johnston of Three Cups of Tea hail from the land of vowels and royal family tea towels. What is it with the English, whether in trenches or in battles at sea, that everything stops for tea? “My nana reckons it takes her 3 cups of tea to get going in the morning” says Elise. Better than a fifth of vodka, I suppose, but there’s more to the company moniker than recommended doses. The Balti people of Pakistan have a proverb that goes something like: the first cup of tea you drink as an honoured guest, the second as a good friend, the third cup of tea you drink as family. It’s this idea of breaching the divide and coming together that is behind the tea sets, tea pots, vases and tableware smiling out at you from the window of Guild like pretty girls in party dresses.

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Elspeth Fougere | Here, There and Everywhere (We are a Community of Cells)

http://www.blueoyster.org.nz/exhibitions/expensive-rubbish/

The Blue Oyster is pleased to present Elise O’Neill and Aroha Novak | Expensive Rubbish and Elspeth Fougere | Here, There and Everywhere (We are a Community of Cells). Using handmade and recycling methods O’Neill, Novak and Fougere are part of an international resurgence of a craft and do-it-yourself ethos, which has grown in response to current economic and environmental conditions. The exhibitions will open on Tuesday 1 December at 5:30pm and run until 24 December 2009

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Hit the Wall is a unique project designed to showcase the work of graphic designers from New Zealand and around the world on the walls of TheNewDowse.
Elise O’Neill is the winner of the Common Ground Hit the Wall competition—with her work ‘Nose to Tail’.